Celebrated jazz pianist American Craig Taborn is performing as an exciting part of the Piano Festival. He has played in Dublin in the last couple of years to great reviews, so this is a great opportunity to catch him again.
Jazz Times ranked Taborn in their 2013 critics' poll as best piano player. In 2014, the Jazz Journalists Association awarded him the Pianist of the Year award.. In 2014, Taborn was given a Doris Duke Artist Award, worth up to $275,000 and given to "exemplary individual artists in contemporary dance, jazz, theatre and related interdisciplinary work who have proven their artistic vitality and commitment to their field."